Apparatus for cutting veneers



( No Model.)

B. CRANDALL. APPARATUS FORAGUTTING VENBERS.

Patented Feb. 8; 1887.

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., HOSEA BALLOU ORANDALL, OF BROOTON, NEW YORK.

APPARATUS FOR CUTTING VENEERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 857,181, dated February 8, 1887.

I Application filed July 23,1886. Serial No. 208,874. (No model.)

My inventio n relates to appliances for cutting veneers for fruit boxes, baskets, and other similar purposes; and the object of my inven-.

tion is to produce an apparatus whereby the veneers shall be rapidly cut into the required lengths for the boxes, baskets, or other articles by means of which, also,the cutting shall be clean and accurate and free from any injury to the veneers.

To. the above purposes my invention consists in'an oblong box or frame for holding the veneers, having open ends and guides on its i11- ner sides, and also an upwardly-curved bottom, as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention further consists in apeculiarly-constructed knife for cutting the veneers adapted to work between the said guides, as hereinafter described and claimed.

My invention further consists in certain peculiar and novel'features of construction and arrangement, hereinafter described and claimed.

In order that my invention may be fully un derstood, Iwill proceed to describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of the box or frame. Fig. 2 isaplan view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the cutting-knife.

In the said drawings, A designates the bottom of the box or frame; B, its two sides; and 0, two footboardswhich extend along the outer sides of the side pieces, B, as shown.

At each end the bottom A is inclined upwardly, as shown at a, fora purpose to be hereinafter described, and the side pieces, B, are suitably secured to the sides of the bottom A,

, as shown.

Upon the inner sides of the side pieces, B, are secured a series of verticalguide-strips, I), the lower ends of which-areinterposed between the side pieces and the sides of the bottom.

"of the'cutter is beveled, as shown at d". box is placed in front of the veneer-machine,

These guide-pieces b are arranged exactly opposite to each other, so that the spaces between each opposite pair of strips shall also lie exactly opposite to each other.

D designates the cutting-knife, the blade (Z -to receive the sides of the blade, and the blade is held securelyin said frame-pieces by pins 41 as shown. At their upper ends the framepi'eces d are reduced and threaded, as shown at d, to pass through the handle d and receive nuts (1, by means of which latter the handleis secured to the frame-pieces. The lower edge The .ting off the veneers, and, by virtue of the action of the bevel d, forcing the severed pieces asunder, so as to prevent binding of the knife. As the operator works he stands astride of the box A upon the foot-board G, and passes thus along the full length of the box, cutting at such intervals as may be required. I

By this method two successive handlings of the stuffare avoided and a great saving in time is effected.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Thecombination,with thebottom A,having the inclined ends a, of the sides B, having the grooves or ways, and the cutter working in the grooves or ways, as set forth.

2. In an apparatus for cutting veneers, the box or frame having the parallel sides, the space between the sides being entirely open at the top, said sides being provided with a plurality of grooves or ways open at the top, and

a vertically-movable cutter designed to be inserted into the top of any one of the grooves or Ways of the sides and extend across the space between the sides, as set forth.

3. In an apparatus for cutting veneers, the combination of an open-ended box or receptacle comprising the vertical parallel sides having the vertical grooves or ways in their opposing faces, and the bottom, to which the sides are rigidly affixed, having the elevated portions a on its upper side arranged between the ends of the vertical sides of the box, anda vertieally-movable cutter working in the Vertical grooves of the sides, substantially as de scribed, for the purpose set forth.

4. In an apparatus for cutting veneers, the combination of an open-ended'box or receptaele having the sides provided with the grooves or ways and a vertically-movable cutter working between the parallel sides in the grooves 20 thereof, and comprising the grooved side bars having the threaded upper ends, the flat blade fitted and secured in the grooves of the side bars, a transverse handle-bar having the openings through which are passed the threaded 25 ends of the side bars,'and the nuts for securing the side and transverse bars together, substantial] y as described, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto'aflixed my signature in 30 presence of two witnesses.

HOSE A B A LLOU ORA NDALL.

\Vitnesses:

JEROME PHILLIP MARTIN, IIIRAM HAIGHT. 

